{"id":22336,"date":"2026-04-18T02:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=22336"},"modified":"2026-04-18T02:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:54:46","slug":"the-fbi-director-is-mia-kash-patel-behaves-erratically-drinks-heavily-according-to-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/18\/the-fbi-director-is-mia-kash-patel-behaves-erratically-drinks-heavily-according-to-colleagues\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The FBI Director Is MIA&#8217;: Kash Patel Behaves Erratically, Drinks Heavily, According to Colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>HuffPo<\/em>&#8216;s summary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than two dozen people, including current and former FBI officials and members of Congress, described him as &#8220;erratic, suspicious of others, and prone to jumping to conclusions before he has necessary evidence,&#8221; calling his personal behavior &#8220;a national-security vulnerability,&#8221; The Atlantic reported.<\/p>\n<p>One official said that the idea of Patel being in charge during a potential terrorist attack, especially while the U.S. is at war with Iran, &#8220;keeps me up at night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Patel is reportedly worried he will soon be fired, and senior administration officials are discussing who should replace him, the outlet noted.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic&#8217;s sources said Patel is &#8220;known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication, that meetings on his calendar have had to be &#8220;rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights&#8221; and that on multiple occasions, &#8220;members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated.&#8221; At one point, the sources said, he caused panic because he was &#8220;unreachable behind locked doors.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <em>The Atlantic<\/em>&#8216;s full report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences\/686839\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patel is reportedly worried he will soon be fired, and senior administration officials are discussing who should replace him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22344,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22336\/revisions\/22344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}